Nothing Says “Climate Science”

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… like a 350 Cummins turbo diesel.
uofguelph_climate_diesel.jpg
Photographed yesterday at Maligne Lake parking lot, Jasper National Park.
Vehicle has Ontario plates.
Cheers,
Ken from Calgary

OOPS!

Nothing says “this might be one of the good guys” like parking a 350 Cummins turbo diesel in a university parking lot and processing tree core samples for Climate Audit.

Where’s their paypal link? I think we owe them a tank of diesel.

38 Replies to “Nothing Says “Climate Science””

  1. If those guys had any decency,they’d donate that truck to ME,and drive home in a “smart” car!

  2. Hardcore alright….what no solar panels, no smart car…just plain old internal combustion engine and that beautiful Diesel Fuel from Fort Mac….why don’t these people just go away and stfu…..our tax dollars at work. What a shame on us all.

  3. I have said for many years now that I would be more willing to ‘believe in’ ‘climate change’ if the people who tell me to believe in it acted more as if they believed in it. So long as they feel free to engage in the behaviours they castigate me for I will feel free to mock and/or ignore them for the hypocrites they are.

  4. They know it’s just a job, but you have to play the game if you want to keep it.

  6. I see Lakehead University trucks in northern Alberta with occupants that look like tree planter. Not sure if they smell like tree planters. What is this? Federal grants to Ontario universities to study the Alberta environment.

  7. Note the name of the department. If it weren’t for the over-abundance of cash chasing the CAGW hysteria, the likelihood of there being an “Ecosystem Dynamics Research Laboratory” alone would be tenuous. Every faculty of every university, even if only peripherally involved in environmental sciences along with every environmental regulatory agency, has tapped into the loot. The whole edu-crat establishment from K to 12 and well beyond is similarly plugged-in. This now resembles a theocracy with the ENGOs, all popular political parties, institutionally leftist churches and the MSM acting as rationally as Monty Pythonesque “Church Police”.
    But a great diversion for the mindless while the progressives accelerate the pimping of them back into slavery.

  8. Hardcore science, whatever that may be, is not science or even “hard” science. It is, however, hard core bullshit.

  9. Dollars to doughnuts that it isn’t there doing any research or actual work. Taking a vehicle from work and driving it across the country for a personal trip is most likely a perk of working at the publicly subsidized institution.
    I live in a rural are. 30 minutes or so outside the nearest cities. The number of city pickups I see parked in driveways of city workers in my immediate area dumbfounds me. If I was a tax payer in those cities would I want my funded equipment being taken home by employees daily and used on the weekend for their own personal work outside of said city?
    I work for a private company with a fleet of trucks for work. I have to justify the purpose of taking said truck when I need it and no go for weekend use if I’m not on the job. These public purse employees would be the first to claim they should have the same perks as if they worked for private enterprise and just don’t get how the optics of driving around in a work truck are terrible.
    Entitlements.

  10. There is no logic to spending on carbon offsets. It’s part of the global plan to bring down the economies of the West and build up China and other supposed third world nations.
    Our politicians appear to be nuts.
    In B.C., Christy Clark’s carbon offset scheme, instituted, she says, to level the playing field with other countries, is draining funding from hospitals and schools and is a dismal failure according to a recent audit.
    “In 2012 the British Columbia government took $5.7 million from health authorities, $4.5 million from school districts and $3.8 million from colleges and universities to buy carbon offsets.
    The purchases are part of an $18.8 million expense that allows the government to claim for the third year in a row that it is carbon neutral, meaning that any greenhouse gas emissions are balanced by buying carbon offsets.
    ‘Even with the best efforts to reduce GHG emissions, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get to zero emissions,’ explains the Carbon Neutral Government 2012 report released today.”
    http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/2013/06/28/CarbonPurchase/

  11. Eastern progressia is sending forays of junk scientists into the province to provide the junk science studies which the next left wing government will use to “nationalize” the oil sands – mark my words.

  14. Hmmm…they have a list of their ‘equipment’, but that truck is not on the list….

  15. Ontario plates.
    That’s a hell of a commute, I’m guessing they’ll mile them out around 300,000Km and get newer more fuel efficient 350’s every other year or so.

  17. The sign is probably just a magnet.
    Hard core… well it’s a lame effort at double entendre.
    They call themselves : “Climate & Ecosystem Dynamics Research (CEDaR) Laboratory”
    To get CEDaR that should read Climate, Ecosystem Dynamics & Research lab.
    The write up sounds campy and when the fridge and sound system make the website you know they’re stretching their material.
    I wish them well. Perhaps they will notice that there is no such thing as AGW.

  18. You can bet your eye teeth Redford is involved in financing this.
    The hypocrisy from the left you have to expect. After all their Alphas to our being Deltas.
    Privileged, with entitlement being so much more progressive than the rest of humankind.
    Rank has its perks.
    Its the caste you belong to plus your ideology that makes you allowed to do what others, what you would deny others. Ask David Suzuki.
    Besides Redford is a UN plant. Even the ones who voted for her knew that.

  19. Here’s the guy in charge. They have lots of books, a fridge and good sound system at home base. We pay for it all. I don’t begrudge him but I sure envy him for spotting that gravy train and jumping on board. Apparently he’s saving the planet, one tree ring at a time.
    https://www.facebook.com/zeev.gedalof

  20. “Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4862 years old and possibly more than 5000 years, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)#cite_note-Currey1965-1

  21. Oh… this Ze’ed Gedalof!
    http://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/temp/bc/49893.jpg
    I thought these guys just cored trees and chained deluded women to them in the name of progress. Now I see that, in reality while their fawning women are chained up, they’re off killing magnificent trees much in the way a hunter takes his trophy.
    Look at Ze’ed there, he’s got sap on his hands!

  22. And I call BS on the ‘old growth’ Douglas fir. I live on 5 acres and recently cut down three firs twice the girth of the one in the photo. Counting rings put them down to less than 60 yrs. old.
    The climate at Whistler (unless she’s waaay up the mountain) isn’t too different from where I live. A true old growth fir would be a minimum of two hundred years old, since most areas were logged off at least once since the 1850’s and sometimes two or three times.
    Not bad ‘rent seeking’ though, considering they started “in a storage locker” just 9 years ago. Now they have a staff of at least 15 and apparently an ample budget.

  24. I fear you may be correct, Occam. You too, Revnant Dream. That photo and the flood ‘volunteers’ being ‘bused in’ to Alta, from Mt. Royal make my skin crawl for some reason.

  25. You left out something significant, chutzpahticular. The BC government doesn’t include the emissions from government vehicles such as school busses when calculating how many carbon offsets (aka indulgences) to buy. I guess vehicle emissions are CO2 free in BC.

  29. I guess so! I’ve also noticed in my area that workers on gov’t projects don’t necessarily follow regulations that everyone else must.

  30. Ahh, Prometheus, I don’t want to go where I have been, I want to go where they have been.

  31. North_of_60 said: “What type of powertrain — hybrid, diesel or conventional gas — delivers better fuel economy? Which one saves you the most money in the long run?”
    Straight up diesel gives best performance/fuel economy/cost of ownership over the long run. Add inexpensive water injection and it gets even better. You can’t beat basic chemistry and physics with marketing.
    Gasoline engines are thirstier and have half the torque, hybrids are massively over-complex and impossible to fix. Plus hybrids use all manner of expensive unobtanium parts in their generators and batteries. The only reason hybrids are -ever- purchased is government subsidies and uninformed buyers who don’t fix their own stuff.
    Hybrids are a scam, except in trains and huge earth moving machines. That’s probably what the article said, right?
    I’d be extremely interested to see how many people have bought a hybrid -twice- vs. how many have had more than one diesel. I’m betting the return hybrid buyers are few and far between.

  32. We have a 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid as one of the two vehicles for our family (the other is a truck). When we have to replace it we will probably get another Hybrid. But we have learned several things along the way:
    1. The Toyota-style Hybrid system that actually has a gas and electric motor working together is a good one. Not all systems work like this: the Honda, for example, is two engines working beside each other. I didn’t understand this before, and we got lucky choosing the Toyota platform.
    2. Our fuel economy is phenomenal, sometimes even better than the rating. This is apparently because my wife has the absolutely perfect combination of city and highway driving on her commute. (And unlike me, doesn’t have a heavy foot :). ) The point being, a hybrid may or may not make sense depending on the type of driving you will do.
    3. I was worried about battery performance in the cold, and the relatively low horsepower rating. Neither has been an issue.
    4. You lose a portion of your trunk to the battery.
    5. Touch wood, maintenance has been no more or less than any other vehicle.
    Some people here on SDA seem to slag Hybrids as a reflex action. But our experience is that some hybrid vehicles are a good option for people with a specific driving pattern.

  33. Also notice the “….fridge and good sound system…”
    important items for taxpayer funded research, don’t you know

  34. turtle
    there is one thing missing in your luv letter about hybrids, and that is the “second” owner thingy, and yes, in the over all picture that is important!!

  35. I bet if it were loggers out there cutting down trees right and left that these thingies would be up in arms.
    That page is another good reason not to go near a university.

  36. pretty much all truck , I have a bigger topper on my Ranger .
    and they arent doing climate research there. they are site seeing , going out to that fake spirit island ( a peninsula)

  38. That’s cute because 100% of the IPCC reviews have been peer reviewed and are wrong.

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